DIY

-Grandpa's benches :

   So here's a cool one. My grandfather made an awesome neon green picnic table with benches. I adore this thing, however this thing is over 50 years old and wasn't taken care of for a couple year. The table is completely solid, but for some reason the benches weren't stored properly with the table and wasn't protected from rain. Any who the poor benches became to unstable. I was super nervous that my 6 foot 3 brother, 200 pound brother in-law would sit on them and then collapse on him, so into the garage the benches went, and a potting table the table became. I didn't know what to do with those benches, soooooo time went by and I finally realized what to do with the benches! And ta dah!!! A table they became ;) 

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-laundry closet:  

We lived in any apartment and I had decorated every room in that place. It was finals week and I needed a project to get the stress off my mind. So I figured why not decorate our laundry closet?! So came up with this great idea of using drawer liner as wall paper!!! I would say this is my genus idea that I came up with. I had drawer liner left over and had already used it on just about everything in our apartment, so the whole thing coast about $3 and it made that closet look awesome! ;)

-chalk board back splash : 

So we live in this awesome rental house and the house is over 100 years old. And the kitchen did not have enough counter tops, so we got creative with it and put in an awesome work bench into the kitchen. However I am very messy in the kitchen and we really needed a back splash. Being a rental I couldn't do anything permanent to the walls sooooooo I bought drawer liner spray painted it with chalk paint and on the wall it went as our awesome back splash! And it has lasted forever and when it comes to taking it off, it will I peel off easily without taking off the wall paint ; )  
Coast, nothing, by using supplies that I already had.

-Screen background: 

So I found this old screen to a window, and I had some extra paint, I thought why not? And then, I hung a chalk board that I made out of a broken mirror. Easy, coast me nothing. Used what I already had. ;)